Pleads not guilty in uncle’s slaying

A hit-and-run driver will spend the next two to six years behind bars for killing a young Queens woman and bailing out of his own wrecked car after the deadly crash.

Alfaheed Odesanya blew through a red light on Guy R. Brewer Blvd. in Jamaica on May 24, 2018, when he was 19, and smashed his MercedesBenz sedan into a livery car on Archer Ave.

Gabriella Deen, 19, a passenger in the cab, died of her injuries. Odesanya and another passenger ran off and left her at the scene.

Odesanya, who was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, as Deen’s devastated family watched.

A city correction officer pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the gunshot slaying of his uncle after a New Year’s Day quarrel that quickly turned deadly.

But prosecutors say off-duty Correction Officer Cardell Gadsden, 30, who was charged on Jan. 2 with killing his 37-yearold uncle Steven Gadsden, told a 911 operator he fired his weapon during the argument.

“The defendant admitted to 911 that he discharged his weapon and may have hit someone,” Assistant District Attorney Antoinette Carter said in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday.

Gadsden also called his grandfather to tell him he shot his uncle, she said.

The drama unfolded the night of Jan. 1 when Gadsden and his uncle began to argue after climbing into a friend’s vehicle for an evening ride, prosecutors said.

Soon after, the uncle was hit with two gunshots.

A witness noticed the uncle had been shot, and watched as Gadsden went to the vehicle to retrieve a bag, Carter said.

The uncle was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, prosecutors said. Several people — including Gadsden — called 911.

Gadsden turned himself in to police about an hour and a half after the shooting, bringing along the gun that killed his uncle, prosecutors said.

His lawyer, Peter Troxler, declined to comment.